Re: OS_File question

From	Martin <News04@avisoft.f9.co.uk>
Newsgroups	comp.sys.acorn.programmer
Subject	Re: OS_File question
Date	2026-02-23 14:13 +0000
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Message-ID	<5cafaf19c1News04@avisoft.f9.co.uk> (permalink)
References	<5cafa1143ebob@sick-of-spam.invalid> <5cafa5f8c8News04@avisoft.f9.co.uk> <dCF*kuXzA@news.chiark.greenend.org.uk>

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In article <dCF*kuXzA@news.chiark.greenend.org.uk>,
   Theo <theom+news@chiark.greenend.org.uk> wrote:
> Martin <News04@avisoft.f9.co.uk> wrote:

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> > I assume that the 'comma separated' is referring to the register
> > separation, not the components of the path string, which are
> > separated by full stops (or colon)

> I assume it's a comma-separated list of paths, eg:

Yes - absolutely right. 
I realised that after posting, but you beat me to correcting it!

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> >    SYS "OS_File",13,"Desktop",,,"ADFS::SSD.$.!Boot.Choices.Boot."
> >       TO r0%,r1%,r2%,r3%,r4%,r5%

> Specifically this says r4 is set to this value, but in your example
> you'd set r4, r5, r6, ...  - if it was like that it would describe
> what those registers are used for.

I do not think my example set r5 or r6!

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    Re: OS_File question Theo <theom+news@chiark.greenend.org.uk> - 2026-02-23 13:20 +0000
      Re: OS_File question Martin <News04@avisoft.f9.co.uk> - 2026-02-23 14:13 +0000
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